In AD 540, Aba from Narsai's faction became Catholicos and reinstated celibacy. Aba's circle occasioned a round of historiography: first supporting Narsai against Shila/Elishe, and then backing off both rivals in favour of Aba as the "neutral" party. Also around here is the Syriac Heraqlidos.
We know hereby that Aba at least flirted with Nestorius, Theodoret, and Chalcedon.
The Talmud was getting another, near-final, round of redaction around the same time. At the Rhomania this was, of course, the Reign Of Justinian. In the Eranshahr: Khusro's reform.
The late AD 530s disasters, I think, forced this dynamism in all the Late Antique religions.
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